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Note: EVE WAS FIRST MARRIED TO A ----------MARTIN AND WAS THE MOTHER OF 7 CHILDREN. HER WHOLE FAMILY CAUGHT TYPHOID FEVER IN THE EPIDEMIC OF
1905 AND ALL DIED. SHE BECAME THE MAIL-ORDER BRIDE OF STEPHEN HOLLAND
MULKEY, A MAN WHO WAS OLDER THAN HER FATHER. SHE TRIED TO BE A MOTHER
TO HIS GROWN CHILDREN AND LOVED THEM AS IF THEY WERE HER OWN. WHEN MR.
MULKEY DIED HE LEFT HIS ENTIRE ESTATE TO HER, BUT HIS CHILDREN
CONTESTED THE WILL AND SHE WAS LEFT WITH NOTHING. SHE MOVED TO SAN
ANTONIO, BEXAR COUNTY TO BE WITH HER SISTER JUANITA BENNETT AND HER
HUSBAND CHARLES. THEY RENTED A HOUSE TOGETHER THERE. SHE WAS A MEMBER
OF THE WOODSMAN CIRCLE. SHE DIED IN 1919 AND THE DIAGNOSIS WAS
LETHARGIC ENCEPHALITIS. SHE IS BURIED AT MISSION CEMETERY IN SAN
ANTONIO WITH JUANITA AND CHARLES BENNETT.
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